Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Peter,

Every Thursday and Friday I am fully occupied at the University. After 
finishing my schedule I rceived your post, and I have to give a comment:
You are wrong, and Karl is right. The WEYIQTOL  and the WAYYIQTOL  cannot be 
distinguished in unpointed texts, since both can be apocopated. If you do 
not accept this, please give one single example of where they are distinct.

Best regards,

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect (was Tenses - Deut 6:4)


> On 09/03/2007 21:56, K Randolph wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Now, when one adds to that that when one reads an unpointed text, the
> > WEYIQTOL and WAYYIQTOL are indistinguishable ...
>
> For most verbs. But they are distinguishable, in the consonantal text,
> for lamed-he verbs (usually apocopated in WAYYIQTOL) and in some hiphil
> forms, although there are some exceptions which may suggest places where
> the two forms have been confused.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
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